Mattresses - I need knowledge

Some shop try-out of Dunlapillo/latex matresses yesterday, disappointed, maybe they grow on you, but compared to a pocket sprung mattress or tempur much less support - can sense they do not give a uniform pressure on the body, the lowest part of the body pushes the matress down and the surrounding body areas have noticeably less pressure.
(eg. on back - less support on lower spine because backside pushes matress down)
Maybe there is some redeeming feature I missed eg longevity/temperature, but they are not far short of pocket prices.

If some of the mainstream shops bought in a simba/eve/duck matress that would really help in the comparison without (frankly) wasting time on home trial idea.
 
Psymonkee said:
Remove an existing slat, go to local hardware shop that sells wood (decent ones will cut to size), show them what you have and ask for however many you want! Done!
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As above, I went to a timber yard so would expect better prices than Wickes, etc and did exactly that. To find out that 15x bits of pine would be £40 shocked me, i was expecting much less.... Either way, I'll do it as I don't want to compromise the new mattress.
 
As said, surely your duvet is a much bigger factor?

I'm not too sure about the Leesa myself. Whilst there's nothing wrong with it, it just doesn't impress me. Maybe as it's firmer than others? You don't feel yourself sink into it at all and maybe that's what I'm expecting. I think the SD was more comfortable, shame it had the design issue.

Maybe I try Casper next, after Xmas.
 
AndyCr15 said:
As said, surely your duvet is a much bigger factor?

I'm not too sure about the Leesa myself. Whilst there's nothing wrong with it, it just doesn't impress me. Maybe as it's firmer than others? You don't feel yourself sink into it at all and maybe that's what I'm expecting. I think the SD was more comfortable, shame it had the design issue.

Maybe I try Casper next, after Xmas.
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I bought a 4.5 tog duvet for the summer, so it's pretty thin already isn't it?
 
Maybe, but does that change the fact (maybe) that it's the biggest factor? Someone mentioned you can get 1.5 tog. Or, check your heating isn't coming on overnight. To me, it just seems odd of all the factors, the mattress is the one that is changed. I'm happy for someone to explain why it is btw, not trying to be a smart arse :)

If I liked the mattress, I would swap the duvet is all I'm saying. If not so bothered and other mattresses are cooler, fair enough, change the mattress.
 
AndyCr15 said:
As said, surely your duvet is a much bigger factor?

I'm not too sure about the Leesa myself. Whilst there's nothing wrong with it, it just doesn't impress me. Maybe as it's firmer than others? You don't feel yourself sink into it at all and maybe that's what I'm expecting. I think the SD was more comfortable, shame it had the design issue.

Maybe I try Casper next, after Xmas.
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I agree about the SD, i think it was my favourite so far.

Definately think Pocket Sprung is my preference though. So going to go back to the old method of spending 10 minutes lying on them in a shop!

I agree though it's odd that certain mattresses can be feel so different for temperatures. Going from the John Ryan to the Leesa using the same duvet seemed to add about 5 degrees. That's with the window open too.

Problem with going for a thinner duvet is that the temperature is only an issue when sleeping. We sometimes like spending the day in bed watching films, especially in winter and a 1.5 tog would be too cold for that i think.
 
I bought a Silentnight Sleep Genius 1400, getting delivered Monday morning. Went for this one after trying out lots of mattresses in John Lewis although it's hard to believe in your choice when you don't get to sleep on each for 8 hours or so! Originally I went in to buy the Sleep Genius 2800 but I felt the latex pillow top was far too soft.

I'm not sure I buy into all these direct to consumer brands that have suddenly popped up out of nowhere, there's so many of them now and they all seem to be wads of different layers of memory foam/spring combinations. Doesn't sit well with me that something that's supposed to provide support can be vacuum wrapped into a relatively small box.
 
AndyCr15 said:
I'd be more worried if a mattress couldn't be. You would prefer it was a solid block? I expect your Silentnight Sleep Genius could be vacuum wrapped if they wanted...
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Do you really think they wouldn't vacuum wrap them if it were possible? They would save considerable money on logistics by compacting the footprint of a mattress to that of the boxes these start-up mattresses come in.

From what I can see (based on all the vacuum sealed designs), the only ones that can be vacuum wrapped are ones where the springs make up a slither of the total thickness of the mattress. The Simba springs are probably 10% of the total thickness or less, the Silentnight springs are 50%+.

http://www.thedrum.com/creative-works/project/garage-soho-simba-billboard-campaign <- Simba design
https://www.silentnight.co.uk/mattresses/miracoil-mirapocket/ <- Mirapocket part way down the page
 
I'm trialling an 'Emma' at the moment.

Decent reviews and it was personally recommended by my Brother-in-law.

Fine so far, but no idea whether it's any better or worse than the other mattress in a box options.
 
Mekrel said:
the same issue with the sleeping duck losing its shape
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form their 'guarantee' seems unlikley that this would be covered (outside the 100days)

For us to assess a warranty claim the entire mattress has to have sagged more than 30mm.
Once this condition has been meet, we assess each layer in the mattress to determine which has caused the issue. In general, we will replace any layers (at our cost) that have sagged more than their given tolerance. Our mattress is 300mm tall, 30mm is 10% of the height of the mattress. We add a tolerance towards in the customers benefit so any layers have sagged more than 8% of their original height will be replaced.
Note that warranty fixes will not return the mattress to the same condition they were when they were brand new. But will return it to a condition that is suitable for the time used since purchase....

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We understand that things can change with sleeping preferences over the years. We also understand that the first few years of a mattress are going to give you peak performance.

Over the years there are many things out of our control that can change the actual feel or the perceived feel. Your body itself can change and what you once enjoyed you will not any more.
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- is that respect for customers ?


an amusing article on SD ,

Mekrel said:
there's so many of these things now!
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agree the market is saturated and the consumer/me can't tell the difference.
 
Got the JR Origins Pocket 1500 coming. What matress cover and sheets are good to go for? I'm guessing standard double size is fine size wise? Any recommendations?
 
We got the Eve mattress at the start of November, unfortunately I was in hospital for almost 2 weeks so haven't properly tried it yet but it seems to be getting better as time progresses (or I'm healing after surgery!)
I was adament on returning it to start with but we've stuck with it and finding that it's getting softer, found it was very hard to begin with though.
 
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